Season One

After Jill explicitly tells Tim not to touch the dishwasher, he breaks
it in an attempt to make it more powerful; more of a "man's"
dishwasher. Jill has a job interview, but she doesn't get it and when
Tim tries to comfort her, he only makes matters worse. After talking to
Wilson, Tim tries again and succeeds.

Trying to improve the lawnmower, Tim gets mad at Jill for always
borrowing things and never returning them. While playing with Tim's
torque wrench, Mark drops and breaks it. Knowing that Tim will be
upset, he hides it in the dryer. When Jill finds it, Tim immediately
suspects Brad and Randy, who know it was Mark, and they tell Tim. When
trying out the new lawnmower, it roars backwards and crashes.

Tim forgot that Jill planned a romantic dinner and hasn't got a
baby-sitter, so Jill hires a magician to entertain the boys. Tim would
rather stay home to watch the football game on TV, and he brings a
radio to the restaurant. At home, the magician is locked inside a trunk
and the boys try to get him out by dropping the trunk from a tree.

Tim has bought a satellite dish and, while installing it, he overhears
Jill's job interview with her job-search seminar teacher, Rondall. Tim
thinks it is suspicious that Rondall would do that on a Saturday and he
gets jealous. Jill assures Tim that there is nothing between them.
Later, Rondall tells Jill that she has been sending him signals after
hitting on her. Jill throws him out.

After hearing noises in the basement, Tim thinks they have a mouse. The
boys think it's a snake, and so does Wilson. When the exterminator
can't find the snake, everybody thinks it's gone - until it crawls into
Tim's shirt. Mark's friends, the Cub Scouts, want Tim to kill the
snake but he's scared of it.

After they're banned from Wacky Jack's Pizza Pagoda, Tim promises Jill
he'll teach the boys some table manners, but the session ends with the
boys mimicking everything Tim says. Tim talks to Wilson who tells him
that the boys don't have respect for their food because they don't have
to hunt it down and kill it. So Tim brings out raw chicken to teach the
boys.

On Tool Time, Tim talks about "his friend's wife" who drove her car
while the oil light was on. After Jim and Kyle, two audience members,
start to complain that their wives don't respect their tools, Tim
admits that "his friend's wife" is really Jill, and that she drools in
her sleep. When Jill sees that on TV, she gets really furious. After
talking with Wilson, Tim admits that he was wrong to say that on TV.

The K&B Construction guys are invited on Tool Time to show how to make
hot gourmet meals while on the job site. They use the tools of their
trade to make meals anyone would be proud of. At home, Jill is fed up
with Brad and Randy excluding Mark from their games so she has a talk
with them. Brad and Randy tell Mark that they, along with Tim and Jill,
are aliens from outer space. But Mark gets his own back when Tim and
Jill dress up as aliens and scare Brad and Randy.

Jill is tired of Tim's shaving gunk in the sink so she says that she
would like two sinks in the bathroom. Tim gets the idea of improving
the whole bathroom as a one-day Tool Time project. But when the tub
won't fit through the door, the water is turned off, and the stove
explodes, Jill leaves the house with the kids, but soon regrets doing
it. Brad wears his hair in spikes to impress Jennifer.

Tim has just bought a frame for the hot rod he is going to build. Jill
wants him to fix the clogged sink instead, or at least teach her how to
do it. So Tim does a special Tool Time show with only women in the
audience. He wants to teach them how to do basic plumbing. At the show,
Al meets Greta post for the first time. Brad is worried about a test in
school; he hopes to do well despite being called an idiot by Randy.

Jill has to write a speech for the Library Association but is afraid of
standing in front of all those women. Tim solves this problem by
dressing himself and Mark as two women and listening to Jill's speech.
While Jill is writing, Tim has promised to clean up the house. Instead
he decides to rewire the vacuum cleaner, which almost sucks up Mark.

Tim wants to beat Doc Johnson with Christmas lighting and puts a giant
Santa and sleigh on the roof. But when Santa starts rotating, it
practically beats up Tim. Mark is working on his list for Santa. Randy
and Brad tell him that Santa is dead. Mark doesn't believe them and
asks Tim and Jill, who answer the best they can. Mark decides to ask
Wilson who tells him that the spirit of Santa lives in us all, even
though St. Nicholas died.

It is family night. Tim and the kids want to play video games and Jill
wants to play charades; they go to the bowling alley. Since Jill knows
how Tim behaves in a competition, she suggests that they don't keep
score. When Jill scores two strikes in a row and the guys from K&B
Construction appear, Tim wants to impress them. So the family night
becomes a match between Tim and Jill. The boys get in trouble at the
video arcade when a boy won't let them play a game, but they get even
with him.

Tim's old college friend, Stu Cutler, calls Tim to say he is in town
for a few days and he wants them to get together at the Taylor house.
Jill doesn't want to have Stu in the house, so Tim tells him that they
can meet at the studio after his Tool Time taping. When they meet, Stu
insists that he meets Jill and Tim gives in. At home, Stu insults both
Tim and Jill, and belches with the boys.

Karen is visiting Jill so Tim has to stand up to her remarks about him
being insecure, aggresive, and destructive. It doesn't get any better
when he accidentally glues his head to a table at Tool Time and has to
come home with a piece of table stuck to his forehead. Jennifer has
invited Brad to her parents' wedding anniversary but he can't dance
"old", so Jill has to teach him.

The boys remind Tim that it's Jill's birthday. Jill complains that he
always gives her something she has to plug in. This time she wants him
to tune into her and give her something from his heart. When he sees
her exercise, he wants to give her a lifetime membership for a health
care club. But on her birthday, she says she won't exercise again so
Tim has to come up with a new gift for her. Brad and Randy spent all
their money on a baseball card and so need to get the money to buy
Jill's gift. So they make Mark pay a little brother tax.

Bob Vila is in town signing his new book and Mr. Binford tells Tim that
Bob is going to be a guest on Tool Time. Because Bob inspired Tim to
make Tool Time and knows a lot more than Tim, Tim doesn't like the idea
that he is going to compete in a "Stump the Toolman" contest with Bob
where people call in with questions. So Tim has Jill call and ask
questions he knows he can answer. Unfortunately Tim knocks Bob
unconscious with a wooded plank, and doesn't feel better when he hears
that Bob has agreed to be a guest on Tool Time again the next day.
Randy pulls a prank on a kid in school whom he thinks is a geek.
When the boy, Curtis, comes over so Randy can apologize, Jill sees for
herself what a geek Curtis really is.

Tim has planned a romantic Valentine's Day weekend at Stone Creek Lodge
but when Mr. Binford presents his new line of winter camping gear on
Tool Time, he wants Tim and his family to go camping that weekend and
shoot some videos of it. Jill gets upset but Tim thinks they can do
both. But when they're ready to leave the camp, Tim can't find the car.
Luckily Wilson is nearby.

Al sends Tim a chain letter and Tim is warned that, if he breaks the
chain, bad luck will happen to him. He doesn't care and throws out the
chain letter. The next day strange things happen: the battery in his
car goes dead; someone parks in his spot; he dyes his hands green; and
Jill knocks him out. So again, Tim turns to Wilson who can help him
with his problem: garlic and wolfbane. Randy is double-dared to jump a
ramp with his new bike, and he breaks it. Tim doesn't know how to
respond; on one hand, Randy did something wrong; on the other hand, it
reminds him of his own childhood.

Tim and Mark are building a birdhouse. Jill asks him which dress she
should wear to the opera fund-raiser next Saturday. Tim is busy that
day and is sure that Jill hasn't mentioned this before, but she insists
that she told him at least three times and calls him a bad listener.
Jill talks to Wilson to get his opinion, and Tim talks with the new
guys at Big Mike's, Hick and Eddie. When Mark wants to feed the birds
in the new birdhouse, Brad and Randy try to make him chew a worm for
the birds.

Jill has taken up pottery and placed her pottery wheel in the garage
along with Tim's hot rod. Tim doesn't like the idea of her moving in on
his domain. Tim accidentally breaks her first pottery project, and they
get into a big fight over who the garage belongs to. The result is that
Jill makes a schedule to control who is in the garage at what time. Al
is upset because Tim embarrasses him on Tool Time by saying that Al
screwed up something he screwed up himself. So he announces that Al can
be host of Tool Time for a day, but Al finds out that it definitely
is harder than it looks.

Tim and the guys have arranged a poker night but when Murray can't
come, Al is invited instead. This should have been a night with men,
cigars, and talk about cars, but when Charlie arrives, his wife Robin,
Jill's sister, is upset. She and Charlie have had a big fight and now
they have to make up.

Al wants to ask out Greta Post but doesn't have the guts. He turns to
Jill and Tim who suggest that Al and Greta come to their barbecue.
After that, Tim talks to Al about not being too sensitive; just show
her that he's got hair on his chest. Unfortunately he does just that,
and an upset Greta ends up at the Taylor house, and Al at the studio,
where he and Greta have to make up. Jill is spring cleaning and finds
her old diary which Tim would like to read. Jill also wonders why Brad
is a totally different person when Jennifer is around.

Tim and Jill disagree about how loud the stereo should be and, when Tim
turns it up, Jill turns it down with the remote and a speaker blows.
Tim talks Jill into letting him buy a couple of speakers he read about.
Tim comes home with a new "entertainment center." On Tool Time, Tim
invites Janeen Rae Heller and the K&B Construction guys to play music
with tools.

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